The Indian Express reported that an FIR has been lodged at Nehru Colony police station against the BJP MLA and his unidentified associates. The suspects have been booked under the Prevention of Animal Cruelty Act, Section 429 (mischief by killing or maiming cattle, etc., and 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the IPC.

However, Joshi denied that he was responsible for injuring the horse. He said a horse hit a party worker during protest. So, he snatched a stick from the policeman and tried to stop the animal from attacking others, he said.

He told Express that the rear leg of the horse got trapped in an iron-angle on the roadside. The horse got injured when the leg was pulled out, he said. "I did not beat up the horse,” he added.

Joshi's supportes also pointed out that the video shows him wielding a lathi in front of the house, while the animal was injred in its hind leg.

According to the doctors at IndianMilitaryAcademy's VeterinaryHospital, the horse’s leg may have to be amputated, Dehradun SSP told India Today.

Video: Sri Ravishankar said Jai Hind not Pakistan Zindabad at World Culture Festival

The actress, who hails from Bhopal said, her city would be happy to have Shahid Afridi as a son in law. (vido below)

March 15, 2016, NewsCrunch

Bollywood starlet Arshi Khan has commented on the rumours that she is pregnant with Shahid Afridi’s baby.

The rumour, which has been circulating in Pakistan, intensified after she released a video last week supporting Pak cricket team in the T20 Wold Cup.

In a video interview with Dainik Bhaskar, Arshi Khan tries to strike an ambiguous note saying her mother would be pleased with the news, but without confirming it.

She has made a similar claim before. Last September, Arshi Khan had said she was pregnant from Shahid Afridi and later blamed it on false diagnosis.

In the new video, she also says it was her affection that made Shahid Afridi say he had found more love in Indiathan Pakistan.

The actress, who hails from Bhopalsaid, her city would be happy to have Shahid Afridi as its son in law.

Shahid Afridi has maintained total silence on Arshi Khan’s persistent clams of their relationship. Commenting on that, she said there was nothing for him to acknowledge. Both were busy with their work, she added.

Arshi Khan hot into infamy last year when she claimed she was in a physical relationship with Shahid Afridi.

The video also shows other telltale signs of mass copying (video below)

March 15, 2016, NewsCrunch

A viral video is again highlighting the cheating menace in Bihar exams.

The footage shot at a Chapra school shows a man elegantly leaping from ledge to ledge of a tall building.

Before you can compliment him for his athletic ability, you may need to be informed that he was allegedly indulging in the impressive feat, to help someone cheat at the exam for the 10th standard, which is underway.

A video report by Dainik Bhaskar shows other telltale signs of mass copying. People surrounding the school building to handover chits and used chits flying out of the window.

After a photo of mass cheating at Hajipur went viral last year, Bihar officials said they would act to check malpractice this year. But if this evidence proves to be just a symptom of a general malaise, they may need to try harder next year.

Super man: Amazing video of man leaping ledges at Biharschool – he was there to assist in mass cheating in 10th exam

On face value it is silly. Imagine, Bollywood stars sending notices to each other!

March 15, 2016, NewsCrunch

Former love birds Hrithik Roshan and Kangana Ranaut have reportedly sent legal notices to each other.

Hrithik, is said to be afraid that she may name him as her ex boy friend in an interview. The legal notice is meant to ask her to shut up or face a defamation charge.

Kangana, has retaliated with a notice accusing him of intimidation.

The two stars, if you believe media reports, fell out bitterly after dating briefly sometime ago.

Commenting on a rumour that she was ousted from Aashiqui 3, Kangana had said it was a mischief from an ex, indirectly hinting at Hrithik, who was in the reckoning to play the male lead.

Hrithik also tweeted saying something like he would rather date the Pope than the women media was linking him to.

The legal notice was first reported by SpotBoye, a Bollywood website. The story is bylined to a senior journalist and has some specific details.

It says the legal notice sent by Hrithik runs into 21 pages. His lawyer is reportedly Deepesh Mehta, who has represented Salman Khan in the past. Kangana’s lawyer is reportedly Rizwan Siddiqui, who has sued Bajrangi Bhaijaan in the past.

He also ridiculed Asaduddin Owaisi saying he was just a mohalla leader (video below)

March 16, 2016, NewsCrunch

Bollywood lyricist Javed Akhtar, who is retiring from Rajya Sabha as a nominated member, deleivered a memorable speech slamming AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi for saying he would not say Bharat Mata ki Jai.

He did not spare the Hindu fringe elements either for targeting Muslims.

Asaduddin Owaisi had said recently that he would not chant Bharat Mata ki Jai even if a knife was held to his throat as it had not been mandated by the constitution.

Responding to Owaisi’s remark, Akhtar said, “the Constitution even does not ask him to wear sherwani (dress) and topi (cap)… I don’t care if saying ‘Bharat mata ki jai’ is my duty or not, it is my right.” He then chanted ‘Bharat mata ki jai’ a few times.

He also ridiculed Asaduddin Owaisi saying he was just a mohalla leader

Akhtar also condemned right-wing extremists, who say Muslims should go to Pakistan. He said “fringe” elements were rising and emphasised the need to protect securalism to save democracy and the Constitution.

India should preserve its deep-rooted democracy at any cost and learn from the mistakes of those countries which tried to follow a single religion, he said.

Adjournaments and polarisation would not take the country forward, he said, and pointed out thatIndia did not have much time as it would soon lose its demographic advantage.

The best was yet to come. Deputy Chairman Hamid Ansari said he was keeping an eye on the watch, hinting that Javed Akhtar's time was up. He responded that was because the times were bad.

The legal notices exchanged between Hrithik Roshan and Kangana Ranaut suggest at two strong possibilities:

One, They did have a fling. Two, they were in a relationship when Hrithik Roshan was still married to Susanne Khan.

At the heart of the squabble between two is a key date May 14, 2014, that was when both had met at a party thrown by Karan Johar.

In the party, Hrithik Roshan gave her his real email id after learning that she had been communicating with an impersonator who was using a fake email id.

Media reports say, quoting Hrithik Roshan’s legal notice, that Kangana started sending a barrage of personal messages and photos to the email id.

Kangana does not deny sending them but says they were in a relationship, which Hrithik Roshan denies. As her notice states Hrithik Roshan had the option of objecting to those messages or to block them, which he never did.

The two reportedly become close during the making of Krish 3, which released on November 1 2013.

Hrithik Roshan and Susanne divorced on November 1 2014. The couple had been separated for a year by then.

Sarah Fatima, 12, dismisses anti-national charges against Umar and says they are based on doctored videos.

sMarch 16, 2016, NewsCrunch

Umar Khalid’s family, including his youngest sister Sarah Fatima, took part in a rally on Tuesday to press for the release of JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya and former DU lecturer SAR Geelani.

Sarah Fatima, 12, dismissed the anti-national charges against Umar and said they were based on doctored videos. She asked her brother to keep fighting for the right cause.

After the JNU controversy broke put reports suggested that Umar’s family was being harassed and that his youngest sister had even stopped attending school.

It is good to see her leaving the bitter episode behind and speaking with confidence and clarity.

Modi gave time to museum’s artists to take measurements at his New Delhi residence earlier this year (video below)

March 16, 2016, NewsCrunch

Visitors to Madame Tussauds museums at London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok would soon see a wax statue of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi rubbing shoulders with other world-famous personalities.

Four artists of Madame Tussauds will take four months to craft each of these wax statue costing 150,000 pounds.

Modi’s wax statue would be dressed in his signature Kurta in cream with jacket and he will be shown in a traditional pose making a namaste gesture,” a statement from Madame Tussauds said.

Madame Tussauds also said Modi was personally involved “in the creation of his figure.”

He gave time to museum’s artists to take measurements at his New Delhi residence earlier this year.

Nirosha told Ritwik that she was committing suicide following which he made an unsuccessful attempt to stop her.

March 17, 2016, NewsCrunch

Popular Telugu anchor of Gemini Music, Nirosha, 23, hanged herself during a Skype call with her Canada based boyfriend, who has been identified only by his first name, Ritwik.

The couple, who were to get engaged next month reportedly had a heated argument, during the 55 minute video call.

She reportedly told Ritwik that she was committing suicide following which he made an unsuccessful attempt to stop her.

Mumbai Mirror reports that he called the warden of the hostel in Secunderabad, where Nirosha, was staying, but the phone went unanswered.

In a slightly different version of the incident, Deccan Chronicle reports that Ritwik alerted Nirosha's relatives at Jubilee Hills, who immediately called police. But she had passed away by the time the police reached her hostel.

Jaya was criticising the call given by MNS to attack non-Marathi speaking auto drivers in Mumbai, (Video below)

March 17, 2016, NewsCrunch

Senior Bollywood actress Jaya Bachchan made a concerned speech in Rajya Sabha protesting the attack on migrant workers in the country.

"There will be another partition in this country, and this time not by foreigners but by our own people. This will be a divide based on religion, caste and language," the Samajwadi Party MP told in the Rajya Sabha.

She was criticising the call given by MNS to attack non-Marathi speaking auto drivers in Mumbai, though without naming the party.

"People from Hindi heartland go looking for jobs to other states and there they do not get jobs because they don't speak the language of the state, which is so sad. They are intimidated," she added.

She also reminded that after Independence, the country had been divided into smaller units most recently with Telangana separating from Andhra Pradesh.

Jaya Bachchan speech marked by strong words faced interruption from fellow members and from presiding officer P J Kurien under time pressure.

Video: Watch Jaya Bachchan's partition speech in Rajya Sabha - Indian will be divided again

It is disturbing to see the villagers thoroughly enjoying their act of shocking cruelty (video below)

March 17, 2016, NewsCrunch

A video of a group of North Karnataka villagers smashing a crocodile to death has surfaced.

The unfortunate animal, which may have strayed out of a river, was caught by the villagers at a nearby field.

They chased and cornered the crocodile, before turning its head into a pulp with stones.

A report in NDTV said the incident may have taken place in a village called Shivnur on the banks of River Krishna in Yadgir district.

It is disturbing to see the villagers thoroughly enjoying their act of shocking cruelty. Some of them can be heard laughing and teasing the animal by pulling its tail and leaping over it, while others hit it with stones.

The Deputy Conservator of Forests of Yadgir, Y Chakrapani, told NDTV that visited Shivnur but could not find any evidence of the act, which is a crime under Wildlife Protection Act.

Director Reema Kagti had approached Kangana for a film, Mr Challu, to play the role of an Asperger's Syndrome patient.

March 17, 2016, NewsCrunch

Hrithik Roshan is facing flak for making a public allegation that Kangana Ranaut suffered from Asperger's Syndrome, a developmental disorder.

In the legal notice sent by Hrithik, he alleges that Kangana has been stalking him as she “suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome”.

Whatever the truth in the claim, his attempt to refer to a medical condition to settle what looks like a personal score has drawn widespread criticism.

Mumbai Mirror spoke to a ‘friend of Kangana’ – Bollywood journalists sometimes speak to actor’s themselves and attribute to close friends – to get her side of the story.

The ‘friend’ has an interesting story on how Kangana herself put this business of Asperger's Syndrome into Hrithik’s head.

Director Reema Kagti had approached Kangana for a film, Mr Challu, to play the role of an Asperger's Syndrome patient.

The character always speaks truth compulsively because of the condition while hero is an obsessive liar.

According to the ‘friend’, Hrithik visited Kangana the same night and came to know about Reema's script.

He responded by saying Kangana had the same problem as she could not lie about their relationship. Hrithik, was obsessed about keeping the relationship under the wraps, first because of his pending divorce and later because of his other Casanova acts, says the ‘friend’

Whenever they fought, Hrithik would refer to the Asperger's syndrome to provoke Kangana, adds the ‘friend’.

That went on till it landed in the legal notice sent by Hrithik to Kangana.

She published the spoof lyrics on her Facebook account on Thursday creating an instant buzz in the right-wing circles, which are usually starved of humour.

Hotel JNU – The shock Ballad is faithful to the original lyrics of the Hotel California, written in 1976. With smart twists and turns of the phrases, Shefali Vaidya has managed to turn it into a satirical nationalistic response to what is seen as the hot bed of sedition.

The meaning of Hotel California’s lines, which invokes of imageries flowing out of a drug-fuelled frenzy, are still debated.

But Hotel JNU makes its intentions clear: it is an ode to Commie academic Hell from where no one ever leaves.

After Shefali Vaidya released Hotel JNU lyrics, Swarajya Mag announced a contest challenging its readers to send its audio or video renditions, promising a prize of Rs 15,000 for the best effort.

An old TV advertisement of Bollywood actress with Vivek Oberoi, which shows the sizzling beauty in near topless avatar, has gone viral.

The ad made for New York Lotto lottery in 1999 was never released in India.

The expensively shot ad shows an Indian palace, where Bipasha Basu is bathing and getting ready for her prince charming, Vivek Oberoi. The entire ad turns out to be a dream for an Indian cabbie in New York, again played by Vivek Oberoi.

As he wakes up New York Lotto tagline flashes – All you need is a dollar and a dream.

Both Bipasha Basu and Vivek Oberoi, unknown at the time, went on to make a name for themselves in Bollywood.

The ad made in pre-YouTube days was never released in India. It was recently discovered and sent viral by Bipasha Basu fans.

A few reports claim that the ad was banned in India because of its bold scenes. That seems to be unlikely as it was shot to promote a business that was not in India.